YC Group Partner Diana Hu was the CTO of her YC startup Escher Reality, which was acquired by Niantic (makers of Pokemon Go). She shares her advice for being a technical founder at the earliest stages - including topics like how to ship an MVP fast, how to deal with technology choices and technical debt, and how and when to hire an engineering team.

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Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) -
00:00 - Intro
00:09 - How to Build and Perpetuate as a Technical Founder
01:56 - What Does a Technical Founder Do?
04:38 - How To Build
08:30 - Build an MVP: The Startup Process
11:29 - Principles for Building Your MVP
15:04 - Choose the Tech Stack That Makes Sense for Your Startup
19:43 - What Happens In The Launch Stage?
22:43 - When You Launch: The Right Way to Build Tech
25:36 - How the role evolved from ideating to hiring
26:51 - Summary
27:59 - Outro